Desrosiers v. Russell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when two or more persons have bound themselves as guarantors, they are generally presumed to be equally liable for proportion of liability on note guaranteed
• rejecting claims of oral modification and enforcing equal contribution among guarantors who signed a written guaranty
• rejecting trial court’s finding of an oral side agreement where the guaranty “reflected the entire agreement between the guarantors and SunBank” and “could be modified only by a signed writing”
• “When a person pays more than his share of a common obligation, the law gives him the remedy of contribution to obtain from the other obligors payment of their respective shares of the obligation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).